Access this PDF of Provider Resources featuring three categories:

  1. Basics of Health Literacy/General Overview
  2. Plain Language Writing and Communication/Culture, Language, and Health Literacy
  3. Training/Education in Health Literacy 

Health Professionals Impact Health Literacy

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Health care providers can help the people they serve by making information about health and health services easy to find, easy to understand, and easy to use.











Some health care providers don’t do this. They use terms that patients don’t understand and they give them information that is hard to read.

This is why OHLP works with health care providers to help them understand how important it is to use common terms and give patients information that is easy to read. OHLP also works with health care providers  to show them how to do these things for the people they serve.

You can use the following resources to help you better understand health literacy practices for yourself, your students, staff, and within your organization.

Health Professionals

Featured Resource: Cardi-OH

Cardi-OH is a statewide collaborative of health care professionals who share best practices to improve cardiovascular and diabetes outcomes and eliminate disparities. Several of their products, e.g., podcasts, capsules feature aspects of health literacy related  to improving care in cardiovascular health and diabetes. Some examples:

Cardi-OH Podcast 63 - Rethinking Prescription Labels: A Patient-Centered Approach. Presenters: OHLP Board Member Komondor, RN, from the U.S. Health Literacy Association, and Sarah Aldrich Renner, PharmD, from the University of Toledo. 


Capsule 49 - Using the Teach-Back Method to Improve Patient Understanding

Cardi-OH Podcast 55 - Using the Teach-Back Method to Improve Patient Understanding. Presenters: Sonal Patil, MD, MPH, and Esther Thatcher, PhD, RN, both from Case Western Reserve University. 

OHLP Board Member Ruth Ludwick is Consultant for  Ohio Cardiovascular Health Collaborative (Cardi-OH). 7/1/2023—6/30/2025. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, through The Ohio State University on behalf of the Government Resource Center KR Baughman, site Principal Investigator Northeast Ohio Medical University (NEOMED).